{"id":32860,"date":"2016-07-19T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/candidate-filing-for-city-election-to-open-aug-5\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:00:51","slug":"candidate-filing-for-city-election-to-open-aug-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/candidate-filing-for-city-election-to-open-aug-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate filing for city election to open Aug. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in running for the Juneau School Board or Assembly? The candidate filing period for this fall\u2019s municipal election opens Aug. 5 at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Three Assembly seats and two School Board seats are up for grabs in the Oct. 4 election. In order to run for any of the open seats, qualified candidates must file with the city clerk by Aug. 15 at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for candidacy, applicants must be qualified to vote in state elections and be a resident of the city for at least one year preceding election to office. Any applicant who is disqualified under Article V of the Alaska Constitution will not be allowed to run.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the Assembly and School Board seats is for a three-year term. To run for either the District 1 or District 2 Assembly seats, a candidate must live in the corresponding district. District 1 comprises downtown, Douglas, Twin Lakes and Lemon Creek. District 2 encompasses the Mendenhall Valley, Auke Bay and any homes out the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in running for the Juneau School Board or Assembly? The candidate filing period for this fall\u2019s municipal election opens Aug. 5 at 8 a.m. Three Assembly seats and two School Board seats are up for grabs in the Oct. 4 election. In order to run for any of the open seats, qualified candidates must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32860"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}